If there isn't any other competition in those markets then it simply means that those goods are scarce goods in that region and a higher price is deserved.
Perfectly, if people are willing to pay $5/bag for it. If they're not, then the guy will have 19 useless bags of flour. What will most likely happen is someone else will come in and offer cheaper flour, it's the nature of the market since such a high price will create a deadweight loss. Free market at work.
At the end of the day, isn't that what the supermarket does anyways? They buy flour for $x and then they resell it for $x+$y. What keeps them in check? Competition from other supermarkets.
I hope you're not serious... We don't have cheap reliable access to space because it's freaking hard, not because the US wills it to be so. If that was the only reason then China or Russia would have been providing cheap easy access to space for decades now.
DC-X is being pursued by Blue Origin currently, most of the NASA engineers from that project and the research data obtained are being used by them to create a sub orbital vehicle. So no, it wasn't ever shelved.
Not necessarily true, the main factual argument for God is that we are here therefore something must have created us. Be it evolution or a God, we simply do not have enough information to deduce how we were created, any belief we have is purely faith in Science or Religion.
Unless the meaning of god is changed beyond all normal range of definitions, no version of god has been shown to exist, so, whatever.
So are you saying that those feats are impossible? That a sufficiently advanced civilization could not have seeded the Earth with life, or created our solar system, heck possibly even our own Universe? Maybe they even implanted the idea of a deity into our genes.
Carry on clinging to your presupposition. Enjoy! Your uncertainty is a canard.
Uncertainty is the reality of the situation because we simply do not know.
For starters, what they realized was that the technology necessary for SSTO was not yet mature enough. They also realized that using expendable launch vehicles was much a much cheaper option. Just because the Soviets are doing it too doesn't mean it's wrong or stupid. We were doing the same thing before we developed the Space Shuttle. They are hardly copying what the Russians did, in fact I believe the program was coined "Apollo on Steroids."
Also you should realize that Bush was stuck cleaning up the long mess that Clinton had left behind. There was no plan for succession and quite honestly it was acted on too late.
It's not really a fault of Republicans or Democrats, it's a failing in the entire system and the American populous. They have become disenfranchised due to the realities of space travel.
If we cut back on our funding and initiatives then we will end up in the dark ages. The majority of aerospace knowledge can not be learned from books, it has to be experienced. The US has that institutional knowledge, but it is slowly being lost.
Besides, where does the money from NASA ultimately go? It goes back into creating jobs and buying components from contractors and sub contractors, the money doesn't just launch itself into space with the rocket.
So it's an issue to be dismissed, not worthy of consideration or discussion?
I never said that, I said it's a question that fundamentally can not be answered.
Because I exist, and that is enough. It is an imperative that I be able to continue to exist of my own free will, which requires consumption of resources, so long as I do not needlessly infringe upon that right in others.
Why is it imperative that you continue to exist? What gives you this right of free will? Why is it imperative that you do so without infringing upon the rights of others?
But if I cease to exist, that imperative disappears.
That imperative never existed to begin with, it is an abstract concept that you have created and put faith in.
Your imperative to not infringe upon the rights of others is based on the idea that if all humans around you did so, no one would have their existence terminated. It is ultimately tied to the idea of continuing your existence, of avoiding death.
If you did not believe your life is worth living, then why do you choose to obey any of the human laws? After all, they are nothing but rules we have created to insure our own survival. If you do not believe it is necessary to insure our survival then you also should have no reason to follow any laws, yet you do so because you are alive and because you wish to continue living.
In the event of a catastrophe, where all but a handful of humanity is destroyed (myself included in those who perish), where is the imperative for me to ensure survival of strangers?
The imperative is to prevent such a thing from ever happening.
The point is that we can spend trillions to make it more likely that we'll survive a planetary catastrophe. The need for this presumes that it is important to do so. So, if people want to justify the need for it, they need to justify the underlying belief that the need arises from.
What is importance? If humanity were wiped out tomorrow, the more important ideals of health care, world peace, etc would be nothing. We place importance on those values because we have faith in the continuation of the human species. If there were a looming threat that could wipe out humanity, nothing would be more important than to solve that simply because without our continued existence, none of our other values matter.
Don't even mention dollars, the dollar is an abstract human concept that values the labor of man and does not exist without human civilization.
Double negative aside, there are philosophical arguments for and against the idea of a God.
However, can you really say with certainty that God does not exist? Can you say that Unicorns do not exist? Maybe they don't exist now, but do you know if in 200 years they won't be created by man?
What does God even mean? Whose version of God? Are you referring to the prime mover who created our Universe? Or the God who seeded our planet with life and created humanity? Or was there a "God" who created the existence of our Planets around our Sun? I don't know and we do not have sufficient knowledge in my opinion.
Then maybe you should go kill yourself? I mean why is your life so important that you must live and suck up the resources of this planet? What are resources but abstract human concepts that imply a scarcity to materials which are in abundance in our Universe? What importance is your existence? Does it really matter? I don't know and neither do you.
These are loaded questions that no human can really answer since our answers all come from the perspective of man. We are but ants in our Universe. It's rather disingenuous to ask a random/. when you couldn't even get a proper answer from a PhD in Philosophy. It's a question without an answer as of yet. The only answer someone might give you is from a book and it is 42, yet it provides no real insight other than the answer to the question is meaningless.
We continue to live because we are alive, and it is our desire out of billions of years of evolution to keep living through our children. The human race chooses to insure it's survival because it exists, that is the only answer that another person can really give you.
Why should we pursue the survival of the human race? We might be the only intelligent race in this entire Universe, is that something not worth saving? Maybe it's not, maybe it is, I don't know and neither do you.
No, you're wrong. KISS is about avoiding unnecessary features or complex mechanisms when there is a simpler choice. It's about improving reliability and cost, not efficiency.
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Is profit greed?
Seems like everyone disagrees with you, maybe you need to rethink your views?
If there isn't any other competition in those markets then it simply means that those goods are scarce goods in that region and a higher price is deserved.
Perfectly, if people are willing to pay $5/bag for it. If they're not, then the guy will have 19 useless bags of flour. What will most likely happen is someone else will come in and offer cheaper flour, it's the nature of the market since such a high price will create a deadweight loss. Free market at work.
At the end of the day, isn't that what the supermarket does anyways? They buy flour for $x and then they resell it for $x+$y. What keeps them in check? Competition from other supermarkets.
Quiet, do you hear that? There's a whale in trouble!
Sounds about as relevant as this news article.
Hey wait, there's a whale in trouble, I've gotta get out of here and save her!
That's what you get for living in Australia.
You forgot to snort and take a sip of your latte.
Logic and reason doesn't work here, only pandering to emotion and advocating mass amnesia of historical events.
I hope you're not serious... We don't have cheap reliable access to space because it's freaking hard, not because the US wills it to be so. If that was the only reason then China or Russia would have been providing cheap easy access to space for decades now.
DC-X is being pursued by Blue Origin currently, most of the NASA engineers from that project and the research data obtained are being used by them to create a sub orbital vehicle. So no, it wasn't ever shelved.
Not necessarily true, the main factual argument for God is that we are here therefore something must have created us. Be it evolution or a God, we simply do not have enough information to deduce how we were created, any belief we have is purely faith in Science or Religion.
So are you saying that those feats are impossible? That a sufficiently advanced civilization could not have seeded the Earth with life, or created our solar system, heck possibly even our own Universe? Maybe they even implanted the idea of a deity into our genes.
Uncertainty is the reality of the situation because we simply do not know.
Just an FYI, I am not a religious person.
What exactly are you going to do with open source designs? Build it? Don't make me laugh.
NASA does happen to open a lot of it's information to the public.
The money was supposed to come from retiring the Space Shuttle in 2010.
That's wrong.
For starters, what they realized was that the technology necessary for SSTO was not yet mature enough. They also realized that using expendable launch vehicles was much a much cheaper option. Just because the Soviets are doing it too doesn't mean it's wrong or stupid. We were doing the same thing before we developed the Space Shuttle. They are hardly copying what the Russians did, in fact I believe the program was coined "Apollo on Steroids."
Also you should realize that Bush was stuck cleaning up the long mess that Clinton had left behind. There was no plan for succession and quite honestly it was acted on too late.
It's not really a fault of Republicans or Democrats, it's a failing in the entire system and the American populous. They have become disenfranchised due to the realities of space travel.
If we cut back on our funding and initiatives then we will end up in the dark ages. The majority of aerospace knowledge can not be learned from books, it has to be experienced. The US has that institutional knowledge, but it is slowly being lost.
Besides, where does the money from NASA ultimately go? It goes back into creating jobs and buying components from contractors and sub contractors, the money doesn't just launch itself into space with the rocket.
The last thing we need is less jobs in STEM.
I never said that, I said it's a question that fundamentally can not be answered.
Why is it imperative that you continue to exist? What gives you this right of free will? Why is it imperative that you do so without infringing upon the rights of others?
That imperative never existed to begin with, it is an abstract concept that you have created and put faith in.
Your imperative to not infringe upon the rights of others is based on the idea that if all humans around you did so, no one would have their existence terminated. It is ultimately tied to the idea of continuing your existence, of avoiding death.
If you did not believe your life is worth living, then why do you choose to obey any of the human laws? After all, they are nothing but rules we have created to insure our own survival. If you do not believe it is necessary to insure our survival then you also should have no reason to follow any laws, yet you do so because you are alive and because you wish to continue living.
The imperative is to prevent such a thing from ever happening.
What is importance? If humanity were wiped out tomorrow, the more important ideals of health care, world peace, etc would be nothing. We place importance on those values because we have faith in the continuation of the human species. If there were a looming threat that could wipe out humanity, nothing would be more important than to solve that simply because without our continued existence, none of our other values matter.
Don't even mention dollars, the dollar is an abstract human concept that values the labor of man and does not exist without human civilization.
Double negative aside, there are philosophical arguments for and against the idea of a God.
However, can you really say with certainty that God does not exist? Can you say that Unicorns do not exist? Maybe they don't exist now, but do you know if in 200 years they won't be created by man?
What does God even mean? Whose version of God? Are you referring to the prime mover who created our Universe? Or the God who seeded our planet with life and created humanity? Or was there a "God" who created the existence of our Planets around our Sun? I don't know and we do not have sufficient knowledge in my opinion.
We can send a man to the Moon in 7 years but we can't send one to Mars in 20+ years?
Then maybe you should go kill yourself? I mean why is your life so important that you must live and suck up the resources of this planet? What are resources but abstract human concepts that imply a scarcity to materials which are in abundance in our Universe? What importance is your existence? Does it really matter? I don't know and neither do you.
These are loaded questions that no human can really answer since our answers all come from the perspective of man. We are but ants in our Universe. It's rather disingenuous to ask a random /. when you couldn't even get a proper answer from a PhD in Philosophy. It's a question without an answer as of yet. The only answer someone might give you is from a book and it is 42, yet it provides no real insight other than the answer to the question is meaningless.
We continue to live because we are alive, and it is our desire out of billions of years of evolution to keep living through our children. The human race chooses to insure it's survival because it exists, that is the only answer that another person can really give you.
Why should we pursue the survival of the human race? We might be the only intelligent race in this entire Universe, is that something not worth saving? Maybe it's not, maybe it is, I don't know and neither do you.
So does Ares, what's your point?
Isn't that NASA's goal? To get that pie in the sky?
What? You mean Space Ship One that never made it into orbit?
No, you're wrong. KISS is about avoiding unnecessary features or complex mechanisms when there is a simpler choice. It's about improving reliability and cost, not efficiency.
How do you know that God doesn't not exist?
I don't know how it's like in Australia, but in the USA the courts can also strike down laws.